Forty Years after Israel Ceded the Sinai, the Territory Remains a Source of Trouble for Egypt
Can massive investment and military force keep it from being a hotbed of terrorism?
May 23, 2022
Was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn an Anti-Semite? A Proto-Putinist? Or Something Else Entirely?
The author The Gulag Archipelago and his critics.
Reviewing two recently published translations of works by the great Russian dissident novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Gary Saul Morson addresses the accusation, leveled by some of Solzhenitsyn’s former admirers, that late in life he became an anti-Semite and a nationalist in what now would be called a Putinist mode. Morson rejects these “absurd and contradictory charges,” and considers the Nobel Prize-winning author’s own responses:
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Was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn an Anti-Semite? A Proto-Putinist? Or Something Else Entirely?
The author The Gulag Archipelago and his critics.
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